(a.) Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.
(n.) Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground.
(n.) Plowed land.
(n.) Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season.
(n.) The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds.
(n.) To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dytiscidae, Anisoptera, and Zygoptera were more abundant in fallow or mature fields.
(2) The fallow-deer is less discussed because the low number of investigations.
(3) Repeat examination of blood from the three fallow deer for 30 days postexposure failed to reveal observable piro-plasms.
(4) The commission is also proposing that 30% of direct payments to farmers be "green" or reward those growing a greater variety of crops, leaving land fallow or extending hedgerows.
(5) ZTJ 151, S. saprophyticus SS 877, Enterococcus faecium EF1 and E. faecalis EFG2 were isolated from the rumen wall and contents of lambs, calves and fallow deer, Enterococcus gallinarum EG10 and E. avium EA12 were isolated from the caecum of Japanese quail.
(6) For example, improved farming practices, such as the use of cover crops on fallowed fields or wetland construction near streams and rivers, have the potential of reducing sediment and phosphorus concentration from fertilizer runoff.
(7) Similar inclusion bodies were also found in the ruminal epithelium of fallow deer subjected to overfeeding by supplementary food.
(8) There are queues at communal water tanks and the irrigated fields plump with crops abruptly give way to hard-baked soil forced to sit fallow.
(9) The HIT method was used to examine blood serums of the game in Moravia (roebuck, red deer, fallow deer, mouflon, wild boar, brown hare) for the presence of antibodies to arboviruses of these groups: alphavirus (Sindbis-SIN), flavivirus (West Nile-WN), tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) and Bunyamwera (Tahyna-TAH, Calovo-CVO).
(10) The humus synthesis processes were most active in the wheat and lucerne plots, they were less effective in the fallow and virgin soils.
(11) Four adult male fallow deer were investigated for 1-4 consecutive years to study the relationships between annual changes in testis volume, sperm quality and antler status.
(12) Weinstein knows how to push a movie all the way to the top and after a few fallow years he's rediscovered his magic touch and found the funds to put his money where his mouth is.
(13) Animal species included black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), sika deer (Cervus nippon nippon), fallow deer (Dama dama), and pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana).
(14) An adult, captive European spotted fallow deer (Cervus dama) was submitted for necropsy due to sudden death.
(15) Some lukewarm romances and underperforming comedies – Four Christmases, How Do You Know, Water for Elephants, This Means War – as well as the well-intentioned but flawed political thriller Rendition meant that the second half of the 2000s and early 2010s was a largely fallow period.
(16) The patient presented a polyvalent IgE sensitization in prick skin tests and RAST to several animals' dander and epithelia, but RAST inhibition experiments showed a cross-reactivity only between fallow deer and horse allergen extracts.
(17) A policy of "set aside", where farmers are paid to leave land fallow, has attempted to remedy this, but overproduction persists.
(18) Though fallow deer is considered very resistant to infectious diseases and parasites, diseases of different kind occur in enclosed pastures.
(19) These results provide good evidence of the correlation between low birthweight and perinatal mortality in fallow deer on Australian deer farms.
(20) The allele frequencies allow a clear discrimination between the hybrid population and the red deer population, whereas the fallow deer are fixed for the allele which is most common in red deer.
Tallow
Definition:
(n.) The suet or fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds, separated from membranous and fibrous matter by melting.
(n.) The fat of some other animals, or the fat obtained from certain plants, or from other sources, resembling the fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds.
(v. t.) To grease or smear with tallow.
(v. t.) To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten; as, tallow sheep.
Example Sentences:
(1) The present study demonstrated that delayed administration of a marine lipid diet, 25% menhaden oil (MO) by weight, until after the onset of overt renal disease, also resulted in significant improvement in rates of mortality, proteinuria, and histologic evidence of glomerular injury, compared with control animals fed a diet that contained mostly saturated fatty acids, 25% beef tallow.
(2) Two-day-old poults were fed diets containing no added fat [44.6% starch, 2.2% ether extract by weight (HC)], 10% tallow (T), or 10% corn oil [(CO) 29.0% starch, 10.9% ether extract].
(3) Free fatty acids from both coconut and corn oils reduced diet palatability and intake; those from tallow and coconut oil markedly interfered (in vitro) with rennet clotting of milk replacers.
(4) In one experiment, finisher diets containing 2.5, 5.0, or 10.0% of added corn oil (CO), poultry oil (PO), tallow (T), or a commercial hydrolyzed animal-vegetable fat blend (HB) were fed.
(5) Treatments were 0, 2, 4, or 6% (DM basis) bleachable fancy tallow (BT) fed with 0 or 7.5% (DM basis) forage.
(6) Five crossbred beef steers (329 kg) were used in a 5 x 5 Latin square experiment with 14-d periods to determine the effects of supplementation with high-nitrogen (N) feeds alone or mixed with tallow on sites of digestion with a basal diet of bermudagrass hay.
(7) The solutions included those containing Dymed (polyaminopropyl biguanide, 0.00005%), chlorhexidine (0.005%), Polyquad (0.001%), chlorhexidine (0.005%) and thimerosal (BP, 0.001%), thimerosal (BP, 0.002%) and Tris(2-hydroxyethyl) tallow ammonium chloride (0.013%), and a solution preserved with 115 ppm benzalkonium chloride (BAK).
(8) In Experiment 1, a wheat-soy diet supplemented with sunflower oil was found to improve significantly (P less than .05) performance characteristics and reduce the mortality attributed to SDS as compared with the same diet supplemented with tallow.
(9) Thus, dietary beef and soy protein isolate had similar effects on cholesterol concentrations in plasma, LDL, HDL and organs, whether pigs consumed soybean oil or beef tallow as a major fat source.
(10) Each group of rats were pair-fed a nutritional adequate liquid diet containing either corn oil (CF) or tallow (TF) as fat as well as protein and carbohydrate.
(11) The dietary fats employed in these studies included corn oil, Tower rapeseed oil (RSO), partially hydrogenated soybean oil (SBO), and tallow.
(12) Growing rats were fed a nonfat dry milk supplemented with two levels of soy-bean oil (SBO) and tallow (T) such that either 30% or 50% of total dietary calories came from fat.
(13) Furthermore, the lung hydroxyproline content in bleomycin-treated animals was less with the beef tallow diet compared with standard lab feed (p less than 0.05).
(14) Dietary cholesterol supplementation elevated the cholesterol concentration in liver in the order: linseed oil greater than beef tallow greater than fish oil (8.6-, 5.5-, 2.6-fold, respectively).
(15) Small White turkeys were fed 10% dietary rapeseed oil or animal tallow to 6, 12 or 18 weeks of age.
(16) The response to excess dietary vit A was not influenced by the type of dietary lipid (corn oil, tallow, or poultry oil).
(17) Rats were fed three different concentrations of dietary linoleate as beef tallow, hydrogenated vegetable fat, or corn oil.
(18) Feeding tallow or the SBSS:tallow blend improved (P less than .05) feed efficiency and estimated dietary NE compared to control.
(19) The increased intake of fat due to feeding tallow caused both increased fat metabolism and fat excretion as based on chromic oxide estimates of digestibility.
(20) At all levels of fat supplementation, the high linoleate safflower oil consistently resulted in a 50% lower rate of fatty acid biosynthesis than did comparable levels of tallow or palmitate.